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  1. 03/10/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  2. 26/09/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  3. 19/09/2025

    Radio 4's weekly obituary programme

  4. The Duchess of Kent, Giorgio Armani, Valerie Pearlman, Rick Davies

    John Wilson on a duchess, fashion designer, judge and a singer.

  5. Joe Bugner, Ann McManus, Angela Mortimer Barrett, Frank Strang

    John Wilson on a boxer, a writer, a tennis player and an entrepreneur.

  6. David Richardson, Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Dame Annette Brooke, Byron Rogers

    John Wilson on a broadcaster, an art collector, a former MP and a biographer.

  7. Terence Stamp, Stephanie Shirley, Kay Dunbar, Eric Midwinter

    John Wilson on an actor, tech pioneer, literacy festival founder, a polymath

  8. Jim Lovell, Biddy Baxter, Razia Jan, Iris Williams

    Matthew Bannister on an astronaut, an editor, an educator, a singer

  9. Dame Stella Rimington, Sylvia Young, Sir Jamie McGrigor, Joan Anderson

    Matthew Bannister on an spy boss, a drama school founder, a politician and a craze starter

  10. Dame Cleo Laine, Hulk Hogan, Margaret Boden, Tom Lehrer

    Matthew Bannister on a singer, a wrestler, a cognitive scientist and a satirist.

  11. Ozzy Osbourne, Connie Francis, Jacqui Browne, Douglas Chamberlain

    Matthew Bannister on two singers, a campaigner and a cardiologist.

  12. Sir Ian Blair, Jennie Street, Dr Anna Ornstein, Muhammadu Buhari

    Matthew Bannister on a police commissioner, a farmer, a psychoanalyst and a president.

  13. Lord Tebbit, Daphne Boden, James Leprino, Sir Francis Graham-Smith

    Matthew Bannister on a politician, a harpist, a businessman and an astronomer.

  14. Courtney Griffiths KC, Sara Venn, Nina Kuscik, Mohammad Hussain

    Matthew Bannister on a barrister, a gardener, a runner and a soldier.

  15. Michael Lachmann, Pik-sen Lim, Leon Krier, David 'Syd' Lawrence

    Matthew Bannister on a director, an actor, an architect and a cricketer.

  16. Sir Geoff Palmer, Barbara Holdridge, Kim Woodburn, Sly Stone

    John Wilson on a scientist, an entrepreneur, a reality TV star and a musician.

  17. Brian Wilson, Frederick Forsyth, Uriah Rennie, Edmund White

    Kirsty Lang on a musician, a writer, a referee and an author.

  18. Valmik Thapar, Nancy Blaik, Norma Meras Swenson, Dr Stuart Farrimond

    Kirsty Lang on a conservationist, a charity fundraiser, an author, a science communicator.

  19. Alan Yentob, Richard Garwin, Dr Joy Schaverien, Anne Merriman

    Matthew Bannister on a 蜜芽传媒 executive, a physicist, a psychoanalyst and a doctor.

  20. Hannah Deacon, Andrew Norfolk, Dame June Clark, Martin Graham

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a journalist, a nurses鈥� leader and a businessman.

  21. Sir Tom Farmer, Elaine Wynn, Sue Stapely, Joseph Nye

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a casino owner, a solicitor and a political analyst.

  22. Jane Gardam, Sir Roger Birch, Mike Peters, Francoise Hampson

    Kirsty Lang on an author, a chief constable, a musician and a lawyer.

  23. Virginia Giuffre, Rosy Bremer, LJ Smith, Wizz Jones

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an activist, an author and a musician.

  24. Pope Francis, Paddy Higson, David Sassoon

    Matthew Bannister on a pope, a producer and a designer.

  25. Anne Scargill, Ronnie Appleton, Cecil Wright, Mario Vargas Llosa

    Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, a lawyer, a cricketer and a writer.

  26. Lord Kalms, Melissa Llewallyn-Davies, Rex Cowan, Wilma Finla

    Matthew Bannister on a businessman, an anthropologist, a shipwreck hunter and a farmer.

  27. Val Kilmer, Jane Reed, Sir Torquil Norman, Dr Marika Sherwood

    Matthew Bannister on an actor, an editor, a businessman and a historian.

  28. Oleg Gordievsky, Renee Goddard, Professor Richard Fortey, Sofia Gubaidulina

    Matthew Bannister on a spy, a TV commissioner, a palaeontologist, a composer.

  29. Group Captain John Allman 鈥楶addy鈥� Hemingway DFC, Dame Julie Kenny, Tuppy Owens, Dick McTaggart

    Matthew Bannister on a pilot, a businesswoman, a campaigner and a boxer.

  30. Athol Fugard, Janet Pharaoh, Alison Halford, Johnny Green

    Kirsty Lang on a playwright, a dancer, a senior police officer and a roadie.

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